kontextmaschine:

So in How We Date Today news, I’ve for the second time in recent months come across a guy who found his girlfriend by hiring her as a prostitute off Snapchat until she started taking the initiative to set up sessions

I’ve the impression this was also something of a dynamic in the postindustrial, pre-Cool Brittania UK, I remember a Jeff Noon anthology where one of the entries was written as rules for a three-way asymmetric game of copper/hooker/punter and the win condition for the punter was getting the hooker to fall in love with him and do it for free

Hell, I guess Pretty Woman and like a third of Madonna’s 80s aesthetic were setting this dynamic in postindustrial, pre-Clinton America